Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catch a man bitching about healthhazards and conditions and going out on strike over no papertowels in the toilet or nagging over the lack of day nursery facilities |
| 2 | However , there are those theories that have their basis in a totally materialistic and mechanical belief system , not observation , and which interpret the evidence to prove the theory , ignoring or glossing over the anomalies . |
| 3 | At the same time Gardiner takes a curiously prudish line on the emotional mainsprings of Epstein 's art by denying or glossing over the disturbing sexual elements in his pre-1914 work , including ‘ Rock Drill ’ and in later pieces such as ‘ Jacob and the Angel ’ . |
| 4 | I like this — in high winds there 's no chance of the flysheet flapping around or flying over the tent . |
| 5 | But a visit to Vanessa , ‘ humming & booming & flourishing over the hill ’ in a household of children , could make Virginia feel suddenly diminished , her life thin and pale by comparison , Monk 's House poky and mean . |
| 6 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 7 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 8 | Fat couples in vacation plaids , bouncing about like toddlers in the low g and cooing over the moondirt souvenir jewellery . |
| 9 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 10 | Once Dandelion struck the smell of a stoat and they all joined him , whispering and sniffing over the ground . |
| 11 | 20ft seas were running into the entrance and crashing over the sea walls and visibility was virtually non-existent in the rain , spume and spray . |
| 12 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 13 | The sudden descent into abuse took McLeish by surprise and he realized he must have shown it , because the girl literally got a grip on herself , folding her arms and hunching over the table . |
| 14 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 17 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 18 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 19 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 20 | The lake birds appeared to be healthy enough , but they were always scrounging food from the tourists and picking over the debris that washed up on the lake shore . |
| 21 | One at Duisker has a flat stone slab on the ground to the north of it some yards away ; standing on the slab and looking over the upright stone points to Kildalton but is there any significance ? |
| 22 | The influence of Jupiter currently in Cancer and passing over the mid-heaven point of your solar chart is quite awe-inspiring but somewhat difficult to harness . |
| 23 | We finished our coffee and watched the seagulls whirling and shrieking over the harbour in the spring sunshine . |
| 24 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle and use to cover the cake , tucking the edges underneath and smoothing over the curve . |
| 25 | Trim the strip so that it is even , and wrap around the base of the postbox , using a dampened paint brush and smoothing over the join . |
| 26 | Wrap the strip around the sides of the cake , trimming away excess and smoothing over the join . |
| 27 | Case No. 5 : 58 year-old woman fell , sustaining a left ankle sprain and bruising over the ankle and tibia . |
| 28 | Turn the top 2cm ( ¾in ) of curtain and lining over the top edge of the buckram , then tack and machine it in place close to the folded edge ( fig. 32 ) . |
| 29 | Rosie at once scrambled to her feet , the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors . |
| 30 | Erm I went er at the end of September and I did white water rafting , going down in a raft er seven to a boat , and going over the rapids wearing a |